The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.- Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
As mentioned, I was in Arizona last week and worked some long hours. I spent the weekend recovering from that and then just plain hit a writer's block wall. Strange, considering I usually just link to stuff with little commentary but that's my excuse. Deal with it.
Some technology news and assorted oddities for you today. We start off with the return of vinyl records and how they and downloadable MP3s may finally kill the CD. Turns out - big surprise - that CDs are increasingly not as musically rich as records were. They started off that way by necessity and never got any better as record labels kept finding ways to cut costs - they seem to make money by suing their customers.
Hell, I can't even remember when I last bought a CD.
Coming soon: terabyte flash drives. I don't stand in line for a lot of new technology, but I might make an exception for this.
Miniaturization on the battlefield.
This one is kind of disturbing. Turns out human beings are technically a human-bacteria hybrid.
Discussing the supposed eco-friendly diapers and the idea of going through an airport without showing ID.
Plus, a story about the history of the Toyota Prius.
A post about the top conspiracy theories plus one about the all-time worst plagues.
Plus, being Halloween, a story about the science of making scary movies.
